Kowa+Digisco Turbo adapters @ The Biggest Week in American Birding

I have been aware of Digisco adapters for about 5 years now and always impressed with the craftsmanship of Yoshi Ishimaru, along with the adaptability with many Scope Camera combinations with Kowa being the main venue .

It is a great honor when Yoshi offered me and Paul Hackett Digisco samples to present and showcase along with all the great Kowa products including the new TSN-11WZ eyepiece at the Biggest Week in American Birding.  http://biggestweekinamericanbirding.com/

The products that  I have received from Mr Ishimaru .

1. CH-P11 Collete holder fits around the Filter thread base of the scope for support of the Eyepiece. 


2: BR-RX-100 Turbo Adapter for Sony RX-100

3: BR-N1 18.5 Turbo Adapter for Nikon 1 V1/V2/J1/J2  coupled with the Nikor 18.5 mm lens

4: BR-N1 1030 Turbo Adapter for  Nikon 1 V1/V2/J1/J2  coupled with the Nikor 10-30 mm lens.

5: P2 Turbo adapter  fits the TSN-11WZ/TSN-17WE

6: TA4 Turbo Adapter threads on to each specific adapter .


Here is Yoshi's  web page with translation along with links to Digisco for purchasing  product .

http://www.digisco.jp/

It is an honor to attend the Biggest Weekend in Birding .
 Kevin and Kim Kaufman are the founders of this event and put in an incredible effort for the conservation ,  to preserve this wonderful habitat for many species of migrants.

Chewink Shrenk Towhee time.

Had a semi productive time at garret mountain today ,,, but patience paid off and had a chance with a Eastern Towhee,,,

I am really liking the Digisco Turbo adapter for the RX-100 and it makes changing Battery's a breeze .

By the way I will be in Ohio for the Biggest week of Birding next week with Sales Manager Jim Danzenbaker,  Paul Hackett,,Roy Halpin along with Annette Jambloski representing Kowa.

More Black and White Warblers

Lighting was a bit on the better side today did mange one lethargic Black &White due to the cold weather.

Black@White and a touch of Yellow + Digisco Turbo Adapter BR-RX-100

Garret Mountain had some migrants tricking in ,,,but the weather was a bit cloudy with some drizzle,were a High ISO setting was in order , I also had a chance to use my new Digisco Turbo Adapter for the RX-100 which is a wonderful adapter .

Black & White Warblers are one of my favorites and there were quite a few around ,but were a bit of a challenge with the lighting and low shutter speed I did mange a few.

I also had a chance at a Flicker early at quite a distance.

So spring is here and the movement will continue with a myriad of species moving through hopefully I will get some good chances to update my catalog as I did my equipment.

Nikor 18.5mm 1.8

Last weekend I went out to test the Nikor 18.5 mm 1.8 lens with the Nikon 1V1 .

Larger Birds no problem and decent sharpness is there at medium to far distance ,,,but smaller species like this Hermit thrush and Red Winged Blackbird 20 to 30 feet is in order ..

Bigger species like this Killdeer I was about 50 feet with the Zoom on the TSN-11WZ at about 30 power.

Blue Winged Teal is a specialty of these areas so to get one in my view is always a pleasure.

Here is a Close up of a Female mallard head shot with the Nikor 18.5 mm to show the close up potential .